Steering wheel vibrating - help?

Hbomb · Post by **Hbomb** » Wed Jan 10, 2007 7:50 pm

I notice that when I accelerate to say 110km or 120km, sometimes my wheel shakes. I have a 98 gtt caldina. The wheel more vibrates, not a violent shake, I am wondering if I need to get the wheels balanced? It has got the factory 15's with cheap, new enduro's on. I 've had the car for about 3 months.

Any ideas? cheers!!!

bluemaumau · Post by **bluemaumau** » Wed Jan 10, 2007 7:52 pm

getting a balance or alignment never hurt, just do uit

solitaire · Post by **solitaire** » Wed Jan 10, 2007 8:01 pm

If its worth anything Steve @ Frank Allen Tyres in Glen Innes is legendary... i travel from albany to see him

Hbomb · Post by **Hbomb** » Wed Jan 10, 2007 8:05 pm

Yeah just got an alignnment, prob needs a balance

TRD_ZERO · Post by **TRD_ZERO** » Wed Jan 10, 2007 8:08 pm

It could be a buckled wheel, a flatspot on one of the wheels, but it is probably not balanced.............My wheels were pretty buckled and used to shake from 80-100km/h getting them balance helped abit.

Hbomb · Post by **Hbomb** » Wed Jan 10, 2007 8:10 pm

Yeah just got an alignnment, prob needs a balance

solitaire · Post by **solitaire** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 8:05 am

Do you trust your alignment guy? Ive been to 5 different places in my time and i have only found one that did it right first time every time

Leon · Post by **Leon** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 9:19 am

Hmmm, shudder under brakes is often a warped disc. Noise felt through steering while turning might be a wheel bearing, it was on my MX5 on Monday.

cynakyl · Post by **cynakyl** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 7:41 pm

i have a similar prob in my car (97 gtt), got it checked and found that the crap nankangs that were on my car had flat spots all round them and one wheel wasn't perfectly found so it wobbles a little... not much to do except replace rims and tyres...

darkwolf · Post by **darkwolf** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 1:47 am

A friend of mine has a Trueno, who's rear right training arm was shot. This caused his car to wobble like an S.O.B at any speed. Started at high speeds only though. If nothing else works try taking it to a suspension specialist or several to weed out the B.S some guys'll feed ya.

skoty · Post by **skoty** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 6:13 am

Yep if its just a shake through the steering wheel it suggests just the front wheels need balancing. At work we also check for flatspots, a buckled rim or tyre seperation which will cause shaking also. As the tyres wear they change shape slightly therefore need rebalancing. The back wheels arnt so critical however if they are real bad you would notice a shake through the whole car rather than the steering wheel.

skoty · Post by **skoty** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 6:25 am

solitaire wrote:Do you trust your alignment guy? Ive been to 5 different places in my time and i have only found one that did it right first time every time

These days most tyre shops use computerised alignment machines which are very accurate. At our shop once we've done the alignment we test drive the customers car to ensure the steering wheel is dead straight and the car is driving perfect. However what some people don't relise most cars just have front/rear toe adjustments such as corollas, familias etc so if the front caster is out by a mile for instance it may still cause the car to pull. Our customers seem pretty satisfied however there may be the occasional that has a rant cause hes badly bent a suspension part and thinks the wheel alignment was going to fix it... :roll:

THA SHZ · Post by **THA SHZ** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 8:48 pm

sounds like a balance , u can bring it in to me if u wana check , but on another note why the hell r u putting enduros on a car that should have half decent tyres on it ? Enduros and sum of the cheaper brand tyres can delaminate or go out of round , and one thing i have noticed is that enduros wear funny and can cause a bit of a shudder , and are an annoying block pattern that dont generally ride nice and can be quite noisy .

skoty · Post by **skoty** » Sat Jan 13, 2007 11:20 am

THA SHZ wrote:sounds like a balance , u can bring it in to me if u wana check , but on another note why the hell r u putting enduros on a car that should have half decent tyres on it ? Enduros and sum of the cheaper brand tyres can delaminate or go out of round , and one thing i have noticed is that enduros wear funny and can cause a bit of a shudder , and are an annoying block pattern that dont generally ride nice and can be quite noisy .

Haha yeah should have mentioned that, they are firestones budget tyre but are gradually becoming replaced with "Supercats" which have a way better tread design